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Wait, I thought that was already the effect, no? With men outnumbering women by a good margin, surely men would try to "out-man" each other to find a mate?
Financial situation has more weight than how manly a man is.
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That someone is perhaps a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. I think a close equivalence is an MP in the UK or a congressman / congresswoman / senate in the US. They make proposals on various aspects of life in China. Those proposals aren't official policies. BBC should really have done a better job here. It is also funny to see the top thread a few minutes ago quickly developed into so…
Well, China *must* be stopped, but that has little to do with this piece of lazy reporting.
At the heart of the issue is the perception that young men lack physical exercise. This government suggestion is receiving a lot of criticism inside China. Chinese netizens don't have anything against encouraging kids to exercise, but they are incensed that it's sold as a way to make boys more manly. https://radiichina.com/masculine-feminization-teenagers/
That said, testosterone rates actually have been falling for a while now [1][2], and 'that's a thing'. Scientifically.
Also, we spend way too much time indoors as a species and there may possibly be a gendered aspect to it.
If we can talk all day about special needs, issues and accommodation for women, there's not reason we can't do so for men.
Never an athlete myself, and loathing the American focus on Collegiate sports - I've actually come to admire it. Maybe not to the 'they call get full ride' kind of admiration, but rather, a respect for the fact that physical vitality is part of our essential being.
1 hour of PT/sports per day should be standard literally all the way through life: Elementary, HS, College, integrated into the Workplace.
Just getting people moving would fundamentally change so many things. Probably ever aspect of life would improve, and if we want to make it a 'men's issue' I'll bet that rates of ADD, attention span etc. improve, as an unscientific hunch.
Edit: It's not a 'hunch' - physical activity will improve ADD [3], attention span [4].
[1] https://www.icenews.is/2010/05/17/testosterone-levels-decrea...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/health-testosterone-levels-d...
[3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/019394591664995...
[4] https://www.unh.edu/healthyunh/blog/2013/07/recent-study-tie...
It's quite easy to achieve: have women to be manly for. One child policy ruined the life of hundreds of millions of men.
Wait, I thought that was already the effect, no? With men outnumbering women by a good margin, surely men would try to "out-man" each other to find a mate?
Almost by definition, a manly activity is one where you won't meet many women.
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Anyone who follows main stream entertainment in China and social media would understand these events as a commonly occurring cultural phenomenon (roughly the equivalent of 'masculinity/identity crisis' lately). Having lived in Europe for more than a decade I however, did find the english title very alarming and worrying, even while reading the same chinese text have no such feeling at all.... language works in differ…
Two things to note here, first that this isn't really different to any other part of the world. There's always some concern about feminisation of men by (usually) older people who had a rough childhood in the war or something and now project their ideals onto others. The other thing to note, although its not particularly interesting, is that there's going to be a media bias against china from the west in general.
The US Army also tests such things as sperm count and has seen a rapid decline.
So the real solution is less pollution :)
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That someone is perhaps a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. I think a close equivalence is an MP in the UK or a congressman / congresswoman / senate in the US. They make proposals on various aspects of life in China. Those proposals aren't official policies. BBC should really have done a better job here. It is also funny to see the top thread a few minutes ago quickly developed into so…
Well, China *must* be stopped, but that has little to do with this piece of lazy reporting.
Whatever China does lately seems to be tailored to inch its society toward more expansive mode and military values. A lot of nationalism in the curriculum, the "wolf warriors" ideas etc. I do not think they are doing this for shits and giggles. They invest a lot overseas and must be aware that one day, one of their client countries will rebel and will need to be subdued militarily to protect the investments and dissu…
Most of China's power is in its coastal densely populated cities that are not possible to defend in any meaningful way.
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Well, China *must* be stopped, but that has little to do with this piece of lazy reporting.
China must be stopped? What the fuck does that mean dude?